The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Local and state Notes.

been turned out Of the Brightwood shops which
had been practically rebuilt
At one outside ticket Office of an indianapolis
road there were sold in the month of August 5S7
tickets and but forty three OF them were sold at
tariff rates.
Most OF the railroad shop-hands now begin
and shut down at $50 P. u. This enables the
various shops to put in ten hours work by day
light
William Sullivan, general agent of the c., T..
St l.. & G. road at this point. has obtained a
TWO weeks leave of absence. and will visit friends
in the Northwest. His wife will accompany him
on tho trip.
The interstate law has been in operation FIVE
months and not a single fine has been imposed
any railroad. which leads ore TO infer that
the railroads have been more sinned against
than SHINING.
The Pennsylvania company have great need
idly is this c ass of business developing. One
hundred are TO be built az once at the Fort
Wayne shops.
1t was twelve months, last Tuesday since the
Decline wreckng train, located at Indianapo-
lis, was called into service the Indianapolis
division. 204 miles In length, which certainly is
an excellent record
The Cincinnati. Wabash e. Michigan manage
ment has decided to build branch to Cedar
Beach, prominent pleasure resort, about eight
miles from their main line, which is now reached
by the Baltimore & Ohio.
w. e. Hacker6orm, general solicitor Of the
Lake Erie 81 Western road, was in the city yes
berday official business His headquarters
are now at Lima, O.. but when the general Offices
removed from Bloomington to Indianapolis
no will remove his headquarters here.
The American Express Company has been
titled to take their messengers off the n. Y, Z.
e. o. road between Cleveland and youngstown.
The impression is that the move is made by the
Erie Railroad Company to secure more favora-
BILE con tract from the express company.
The most cheerful being one meets in railroad
,ircles is the ticket scalper. They are now
rSohf rfrl In hau and 1nncy frnr
.he roads have harmonized matters and rates
are restored, the scalper will be able to sell tick
pts at extremely low rates in nearly all direc-
lions.
which threatens to thwart the efforts of Austin
Corbin to lift the Philadelphia & Reading road
put of the mire, IS not worrying Mr.. Corbin in
the least. He still has great confidence In the
future OF the property, and predicts that the
stock will go to rs before New Years day.
General Manager Bradbury, of the Lake Erie &
Western road says but for the failure of the
crop along their lines the company would have
paid p per cent dividend in Janury next, and
ne thinks that it is they will be able 70 pay a
small dividend on this years business, notwith
standing the extensive improvements making to
The property.
The freight-car famine in the vicinity of Pitts
burg is constantly increasing, although all the
railroads touching that point are doing their ut
most to meet the acquisitions for cars. The
Pennsylvania officials at Pjttsburg wire the
main freight Offices that the work of unloading
no apparent effect on the demand for empty
cars.
The business OF the Chicago & Indiana Coal
road is developing in a manner that its warmest
friends even had not expected or predicted.
The earnings of the line for August were nearly
double those Of August, 1886. and the Septem-
Der earnings are showing up even better. The
road is now hauling north an average of
hundred and twenty-five carloads of block coal
per day.
Passenger agents are not satisfied with the
one-cent-a-m mile rate authorized by the various
associations to the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie encampment and yesterday it looked if
q further break would be made. One St. Louis
line charges that it's competitor, to secure sew
eral of the posts at this point for ST. Louis,
gave forty three tickets to the leaders of the re-
BDective posts
The roads which have ceased to pay commits
sions on sales of tickets are certainly profiting
by the change It is stated that the saving to
the Decline resulting from the abolishment of
commissions is about SIS. 900 a month, and its
passenger earnings show a handsome increase
the last five months over the corresponding five
months of 1886, when the road was paying COM
missions. The Lake Shore road, it is stated, is
benefited So, 600 month from the non-payment
of commissions, and the Pennsylvania lines claim
TO be benefited $40. 600 a month.
A. j. Elliott, city tracer has just issued
very complete list of the private switches in and
about the city. This shows that there 200
sidetracks leading to manufactures, coal and
lum ber-yards, elevators, etc. These, switches
hsve a capacity of 1928 cars, and are located as
the c., a. e. l., seven on the l., d. q s., seven
on the l., u. 81 W., thirteen on the j.. NJ e l.,
eleven OF the L. III. & l.. thirty one on the Bee
line. FIVE the l. & st. L., the c.. st.
l.. & p, four the /. q ". thirty-one the
Lake Erie e. Western, twenty-one on the Belt
road, fourteen the Union tracks,
Kingan's railroad aud to Elevator A. 1t is
stated that other city in the Union has
many private switches.
The Wabash road seems to be one of those
roads which thrive best under receiver and
posed to let matters along until the bond
holders, purchasing committees, etc., get through
their squabble, and are prepared to manage the
property in an honest, business-like manner.
Both lines are doing nicely, and if again
working together under an honest management
would be very valuable properties The Eastern
lines, earned for the first SIX months. according
TO Receiver McNutas report, So, $50. 731, and the
sxpenses were 81 123, 259 leaving net earnings of
1927 42 The net earnings of the western lines
Tor the same period were 1894 $780, making a total
for the system of 81, 82l 848 increase over
the first six months of the previous year of $780,.
627. or 81 per cent.
eral manager; VIM. Turreff, general master
mechanic; W. G. Irwin, chief engineer and
Edgar Hill, general freight agent. compose the
party inspecting the Bee-line. They reached
the city last evening, having put in the entire
day inspecting the road-bed between Cleveland
and Indianapolis and the shops at Brigntwood.
Mr. Laying says the track is in excellent con-
dition. There is occasionally rough spot. but
within the next thirty days all these will be i'm
proved as they are now distributing 5000 tons of
new steel along the Indianapolis division He
o expressed himself as being fully determined to
bring the passenger equipment Of the road up
the highest standard as rapidly possible In
all their shops they are pushing improvements
Of this character. The Wagner Sleepng-car
Company are doing their duty in this direction
and one year from now the Bee-line will have
running ever it fine equipment any of
the trunk lines.
General aud miscellaneous
Travel over the Chicago, Milwaukee 81 st.
Paul road is SO heavy that night trains run
In two sections the last one composed of eignt
well-flled Pullman coaches.
move is on foot at Chicago to place the ten
Western railway associations under one roof,
where the managers can wrangie from early
morn until midnight should they choose. to do so.
The Southern Pacific is the only road in the
world ballasted with salt. Fifty miles of its
track were laid on blocks of the most beautiful